The Biggest Donkey in the Universe

It's Freeroll Time! (again)

2011-01-12T22:41:00.001-05:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 420119

Happy New Year!

2011-01-01T11:26:00.000-05:00

Well the end of 2010 sucked; i had to withdraw the rest of my monies to purchase a car that i've been desperately needing.

So, 2011 is a fresh slate;

I'm gonna be sticking to $10NL or .25/.50 limit, whatever i feel like playing, and whatever gets me to Iron Man faster (I 8-table 10NL and 4-table Limit)

I can also go the $3 SNG route, tho I'll probably do that on Stars, where the SNGs are softer (at least my sharkscope says so)

I'll still play The Mookie ~every week.. (I think I missed just 4 or 5 in 2010)

When I play Live, it'll be 3/6 or 4/8 Limit Hold 'em or 1/2 NL (best. game. ever.)

Here's to a profitable 2011!

-Kenny

The Future of Online Poker

2010-12-06T23:27:00.002-05:00

As you may have already heard, Nevada Senator Harry Reid is adding the Legalization of Online Poker to a Tax bill, much like Bush added the UIGEA to a tax bill in 2006.

If it passes, it will legalize Online Poker, however there will be a 15 month blackout period for any site that wishes to obtain a legal license (Hello FTP and Stars obv)

So if FTP and Stars shut down for 15 months... is that really a good thing for us?

There's a monster 2+2 thread here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation/reid-pushing-plan-legalize-u-s-online-gambling-930754/

I hope the bill passes, since it will make the game we know and love 100% legal, regulated and safe. But 15 months without online poker? Yuck. That means we won't have it again until April of 2012 (according to the current timeline)

Let's see how this all plays out.

-Kenny

My New Life: SNG Grinder + Mookie Win #9

2010-12-03T00:08:00.003-05:00

So I've taken a liking to the $6.5 Turbo SNGs on both Full Tilt and PokerStars. And tbh, I'm... LOVING IT.

It helps that I'm good friends with one of the best SNG players around, Aaron 'abarone68' Barone. His advice has been great, but I kinda had an understanding of the SNG game anyway. It's good to have someone like that as a friend.

And, for the 9th time (and I believe 7th time in 2010), I won The Mookie. Yes, it's a long cry from the days of 5 tables, but I outlasted 10 other donkeys (flopping a Straight Flush in a 3-way all in pot helps) to take home my 9th.

-Kenny

Need to Update...

2010-11-27T22:54:00.002-05:00

So I haven't blogged since the summer.

I won 4 (yes, 4) Mookie Titles since then, mainly because we're only getting 2 tables lately, anywhere from 12-18 players. And I've been running good in them.

Draw Poker has been introduced to Full Tilt, and I donated a good chunk of my roll learning the games.

Now I'm back to playing 2/4 limit online, and haven't played live much.

My good friend Nik Santi had a sick live limit session, go read his blog for the details.

I'll try and update this a little more regularly, but we need more players in the mookie!

Four Time!

2010-08-12T22:37:00.002-04:00

Yeah, I won The Mookie for the 4th time last night.

This was by FAR the hand of the tournament. We're down to 4: Me, Lightning, Buddy and Dave. Me and Lightning have huge stacks, Buddy and Dave are on life support. Then, the coldest of cold decks occurs, with me on the right side:

Full Tilt Poker Game #23019096199: The Mookie (176453690), Table 2 - 250/500 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 00:13:25 ET - 2010/08/12

Seat 1: BuddyDank (3,130)

Seat 3: NYRambler (21,106)

Seat 5: lightning36 (26,014)

Seat 6: DDionysus (3,750)

BuddyDank antes 50

NYRambler antes 50

lightning36 antes 50

DDionysus antes 50

NYRambler posts the small blind of 250

lightning36 posts the big blind of 500

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to NYRambler [Ac Ad]

DDionysus folds

BuddyDank folds

NYRambler raises to 1,500

lightning36 raises to 3,000

NYRambler raises to 7,000

lightning36 raises to 25,964, and is all in

NYRambler calls 14,056, and is all in

lightning36 shows [Ks Kh]

NYRambler shows [Ac Ad]

Uncalled bet of 4,908 returned to lightning36

*** FLOP *** [9h 5h 8s]

*** TURN *** [9h 5h 8s] [As]

*** RIVER *** [9h 5h 8s As] [3c]

lightning36 shows a pair of Kings

NYRambler shows three of a kind, Aces

NYRambler wins the pot (42,312) with three of a kind, Aces

NYRambler: so rigged

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 42,312 | Rake 0

Board: [9h 5h 8s As 3c]

Seat 1: BuddyDank (button) folded before the Flop

Seat 3: NYRambler (small blind) showed [Ac Ad] and won (42,312) with three of a kind, Aces

Seat 5: lightning36 (big blind) showed [Ks Kh] and lost with a pair of Kings

Seat 6: DDionysus folded before the Flop

With such a huge chip lead, I was gonna try to find a way to blow it, and I almost did as I got Heads Up with Lightning, and gave him the chip lead for a short while. But I was able to out-aggro him and get back into the lead, then took him out with a cruel river (for him)

Full Tilt Poker Game #23019436011: The Mookie (176453690), Table 2 - 400/800 Ante 100 - No Limit Hold'em - 00:32:50 ET - 2010/08/12

Seat 3: NYRambler (28,591)

Seat 5: lightning36 (25,409)

NYRambler antes 100

lightning36 antes 100

NYRambler posts the small blind of 400

lightning36 posts the big blind of 800

The button is in seat #3

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to NYRambler [8s Js]

NYRambler raises to 2,400

lightning36 raises to 4,800

NYRambler calls 2,400

*** FLOP *** [7s 2c 9s]

lightning36 checks

NYRambler checks

*** TURN *** [7s 2c 9s] [8d]

lightning36 bets 3,200

NYRambler calls 3,200

*** RIVER *** [7s 2c 9s 8d] [Qs]

lightning36 bets 17,309, and is all in

NYRambler calls 17,309

*** SHOW DOWN ***

lightning36 shows [Kh Qh] a pair of Queens

NYRambler shows [8s Js] a flush, Queen high

NYRambler wins the pot (50,818) with a flush, Queen high

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 50,818 | Rake 0

Board: [7s 2c 9s 8d Qs]

Seat 3: NYRambler (small blind) showed [8s Js] and won (50,818) with a flush, Queen high

Seat 5: lightning36 (big blind) showed [Kh Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens

-Kenny

Summer Update: Post-TOC, Vegas, Still Running Good

2010-08-10T17:45:00.002-04:00

Okay, I haven't posted since I won my 10k seat for the WSOP... Here's my tl;dr journey since then.

Like the other guys who won the TOC, I took the 10k in T$ on Full Tilt. I really needed the money to help me and my family, so it was a great thing to have. I withdrew $7500 in cash and kept $2000 on Full Tilt.

It's been helping me play Poker without fear of going broke, which is always something that has loomed over my head. $200NL is now my new home, both Live and Online. I'm now playing more MTTs and with the proper bankroll management that I have never used before. I recently took 2nd in a $5 2 rebuy/1 add-on tournament on Stars for $4800+.

Now to the Vegas part. I planned the Vegas trip anyway, but with the new money, I was able to play a little looser than I usually do. I wound up dropping $800 in total, which wasn't too bad. Plus, I got to meet Al, lucko, LJ and stoner when Lucko was making his WSOP run. But for the most part, I hung out with my usual gang that includes Nik Santi, et al.

I spent most of my time in Vegas at the Venetian card room, playing 1-2NL, 4-8 Hold 'em and 4-8 and 8-16 HORSE. Also played a lot of Pai Gow and especially Baccarat, as the strategy in baccarat is just have a deep enough roll to play where you bet player every hand and double your bet if you lose. The largest bet I made using this strategy was $800. That was when I was starting out at $25 bets.

I've been playing The Mookie, and lately, the Tuesday Spewday, on a semi-regular basis, and as i've said, the various MTTs and $200NL.

I'm gonna TRY to keep the blog more up to date, but I can't promise anything.

-Kenny

Holy Crap...

2010-05-28T02:05:00.000-04:00

I Love AlCantHang

ToC News and Notes

2010-05-18T17:46:00.002-04:00

One extra donkey to avoid after oossuuu denied Numb a TOC seat last night, so the field is currently at a 23 max.

Here are the players who are in so far, and my review on them:

Jim McManus - He's written a few poker books, made a Main Event Final Table. Standard TAG Pro, imo

Adam27X - No Clue.

All In At 420 - aka Matt Stout, insanely successful Online Pro. Def. a major threat.

dignitasODEE - No Clue

hoyazo - Very strong player, I know his game very well, hopefully I have position on him.

jjok - Tight-ish, imo.

Julius_Goat - After I snapped him on the turn with nothing but A-hi (and a gutter ball and NFD), I think he lost all respect for my play (standard). Also a threat.

KeepFloppin - Heard of the name, have no idea how he or she plays.

maigrey - Team Vagina Member. No idea how she plays.

NYRambler - Total Donkey.

oossuuu754 - Probably the second or third most aggressive player in the field atm.

pvanharibo - See oossuu754.

TexansBaby - She won her TOC seat alongside me, and She plays a solid TAG game.

VinNay - I'll have to do some research to remind myself of his play.

xkm145 - Also a standard TAG player.

People I Don't wanna see win a TOC seat (because they'd absolutely crush the field or die trying)

1. Lucko

2. Chad

3. heffmike (tho he'd probably be a little more on the tighter side than the first 2)

People I wanna see win a TOC seat (because they'd be easy monies)

1. Waffles (obv, even though he has my number, everyone else has his. It's kinda like me vs. hoyazo and lucko.)

2. VBPro

3. Ali Nejad

People I wanna see win a TOC seat (because I like them as a person)

1. Turtle (obv)

2. CK

3. Joanada

Good Luck in the last 4 tournaments, everyone!

-Kenny

Ship the ToC Seat!

2010-05-03T00:42:00.003-04:00

I will probably try and do a recap tomorrow... Plus I wanna read what twoblackaces thinks about the QJs call at 3-handed...

And yes, 2 members of Team Vagina chopped it. Screw you, I'm poor.

So I Busted Out of the Mookie Early...

2010-04-29T17:34:00.001-04:00

And decided to fire up a Donkey $5 Omaha Hi-Lo tournament to keep me occupied...

Um...

BBT5!!!

2010-04-15T23:23:00.004-04:00

ck31 (Observer): cruuuuuuuuuuuuuubs (aka Mookie #3)

2010-02-04T01:50:00.005-05:00

About a Year after Mookie #2, I finally take down Mookie #3. The end game happened insanely fast. 7-handed seemed to take FOR-EV-ER, with tons of raise/fold hands going down. With lucko to my right, I had a hard time stealing since HE was stealing so often. Luckily, I had hoy and edgie, a couple of TAG players, to my left so when I did raise, they tended to give me respect.

Edgie finally took a stand against me with 5-5, I was holding 9-8 of Diamonds. I think it's exactly 50-50, tho I might have a slight bit of equity. I bink the straight on the river with about 12 outs to hit (board was paired and all cards were above 5, and I had an OESD).

Then, I sat back and watched lucko and heffmike blow their loads all over the place, and when the dust settled, it was me and heffmike HU4title. I quickly got a double up when I called his shove for about 15bbs with A5o. He had KQs, outflopped me but I spiked an ace on the turn AND river. A few back and forth hands of nothing, and then we get to the final hand, which was a little interesting to say the least...

Full Tilt Poker Game #18166164592: The Mookie (135782084), Table 3 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:46:20 ET - 2010/02/04

Seat 1: heffmike (26,727)

Seat 7: NYRambler (45,273)

heffmike antes 125

NYRambler antes 125

heffmike posts the small blind of 500

NYRambler posts the big blind of 1,000

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to NYRambler [Ac Kc]

heffmike calls 500

NYRambler raises to 3,000

heffmike calls 2,000

*** FLOP *** [2s 2c 5s]

NYRambler bets 4,000

heffmike calls 4,000

*** TURN *** [2s 2c 5s] [9c]

NYRambler checks

heffmike bets 14,250

NYRambler raises to 28,500

heffmike calls 5,352, and is all in

NYRambler shows [Ac Kc]

heffmike shows [9s 6s]

Eh it's a close race. I have 4 pair outs (non-spade Ace or King), 9 club outs. that's 13 outs to try and hit the river to win my third Mookie Title... So I'm about 28% to win... but wait a minute...

ck31 (Observer): cruuuuuuuuuuuuuubs

YES! the Queen of Crubs, CK, has blessed us with her call! This immediately doubles my win-rate to 56%!

Uncalled bet of 8,898 returned to NYRambler

*** RIVER *** [2s 2c 5s 9c] [7c] (obv)

NYRambler shows a flush, Ace high

heffmike shows two pair, Nines and Twos

NYRambler wins the pot (53,454) with a flush, Ace high

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 53,454 | Rake 0

Board: [2s 2c 5s 9c 7c]

Seat 1: heffmike (small blind) showed [9s 6s] and lost with two pair, Nines and Twos

Seat 7: NYRambler (big blind) showed [Ac Kc] and won (53,454) with a flush, Ace high

Thanks, CK!

-Kenny

Freerollaments!

2010-01-11T09:27:00.001-05:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 121052

The MiniFTOPS

2009-12-13T12:32:00.003-05:00

The MiniFTOPS is in full swing right now, and I've played one tournament, Event #1. I cashed in it, finishing in 1606th (yep, that's a cash lol) for a $10 profit (lol)

A fellow blogger bubbled the final table of the $10 rebuy for a sweet score, but he's always running good in huge MTTs.

The next tournaments I'll play are the HORSE and Turbo NLH on Tuesday; If anyone wants to back me in the HORSE Event (I'll sell up to $15 of my action, which is 30%), let me know.

-Kenny

So I Made a Final Table...

2009-11-24T12:02:00.003-05:00

I woke up early Sunday Morning (fail) and decided to see what kind of tournaments were running over at FTP. I had a $26 token in my account, so I used it to buy in to the $15K Guarantee tournament that started at 10AM.

5 hours later, $379 score for 9th place.

I ran a crappy bluff when we were down to 15 or so... I tried a blind steal with Q4o, was called by the BB (LPP). Flop was K hi with 2 diamonds. He checked, I c-bet and he snap called... it was here that I put him on a FD. Turn was a blank, he checked, I fired again repping the K, he snapped again. River was a blank that completed a backdoor straight, he checked again... I shoved and covered, and he tanked then called with KJ. oops.

I nursed a short stack from that point on, made the Final Table with about 6BBs, and was the SB, found 74s, shoved into AT, flop was AT7... turn gave me a flush draw, but I missed on the river.

Since then, I am now at a point where I can practice good bankroll management and play the blogger tournaments adhering to those rules (first time in a long time lol)

I want to play 1/2 limit O8 or Stud 8, but there's never anyone playing... So i stick to $25NL, and tend to be the most aggro player whenever I play, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I dropped a little less than 2 buy-ins last night, mostly by getting it in with draws and missing... however, I hope that variance can kick in and allow me to do better.

I'll probably be posting more poker content on here in the future, as I found more motiviation to do well.

-Kenny

Back in the Swing of Things: 3rd in the Skillz

2009-11-04T09:49:00.002-05:00

I made my return to Bloggaments last night in the Skillz series... taking down 3rd place after being in the Dank Position for most of the first hour. Some key hands vs. Numb and Chad got me a big stack, and I was hovering around the 8K mark for the remainder of the tournament, until a JJ < KK vs Numb sent me down, and pushmonkey's stubbornness for my bruffs cost me the rest of my stack. However, it felt good to be back in the game, and I will be playing The Mookie tonight.

Also, I am interested in starting up a regular game on Mondays again; I'm going to call it 'Monday Night HORSE', and it will start Monday, January 4, 2010, at 10pm. If anyone out there is good at making banners, if you can make one for this, it will be much appreciated. The Password will probably be 'mnhorse', and the buy-in will be $10+$1, save for an end-of-quarter tournament on the last monday of every 3 months, which will be a $24+$2 tournament.

-Kenny

I'm Back... Baby

2009-11-02T22:28:00.001-05:00

Back on Full Tilt. You'll see me at the Mook on Wednesday :)

Royal Frush IMO

2009-10-12T23:11:00.003-04:00

Got it all in on the Flop.

Even a Blind Squirrel...

2009-08-07T01:04:00.000-04:00

Hurricane LJ?

2009-07-30T18:58:00.001-04:00

As an Unofficial Hurricane Maniac/Historian, I felt the need to bring this up:

Hurricane LJ?

I can safely report that there has never been a 'Hurricane Waffles' anywhere in the world, thankfully.

-Kenny (Also never a Hurricane Name)

Poker Pros on 'The Amazing Race'

2009-07-21T20:42:00.000-04:00

It appears that Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle are teaming up to tackle 'The Amazing Race', which will air starting in Late September.

The WSOP November Nine, 2009

2009-07-16T07:37:00.002-04:00

Well this year's November Nine are set. Last year you had 1 known player going in... this time you have 3.

Of course, one of those known players is none other than Phil Ivey, who needs to finish 3rd or better to become the #1 tournament earner of all time, passing Jaime Gold.

You have Jeff Shulman, the CEO of CardPlayer Magazine, who has decided to stir up some controversy with some statements he has made the past few days... Linky

The third player that's known is James Akenhead. Now, I had heard of that name before but couldn't remember exactly from where. I looked him up and saw that he finished second in a $1500 No Limit Event in the 2008 WSOP; this was the final hand: Linky

The other 6 players I have never heard of until this WSOP.

Seat 1 is The Chip Leader, Darvin Moon, who has zero earnings up to this point.

Seat 2 is Akenhead.

Seat 3 is Ivey.

In Seat 4 you have Kevin Schaffel, a 51-year-old who is making this his 3rd Main Event Cash, including a 42nd place finish in 2004 (Raymer Year)

In Seat 5 we have Steven Begleiter, also with 0 career prior cashes and is from Chappequa, NY (home of Bill and Hillary Clinton)

Eric Buchman is in Seat 6, and has had nearly $1 million in earnings, mostly coming from 2 runner-up finishes; one in a $1500 Limit WSOP event in 2006, and another in the $10,000 WSOP Circuit event in Atlantic City. He is ALSO from the great state of New York, and a little closer to me too, in Valley Stream (right on the New York City border)

Seat 7 is Joseph Cada, from Michigan, making his 3rd WSOP Cash; the first two were also from this year, both in $1500 No Limit Hold 'em Events

Sitting in Seat 8 Antoine Saout is a frenchman with 0 earnings coming in.

And Seat 9 is Jeff Schulman.

Here is a List of the players and their chip counts:

Seat 1: Darvin Moon — 58,930,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead — 6,800,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey — 9,765,000
Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel — 12,390,000
Seat 5: Steven Begleiter — 29,885,000
Seat 6: Eric Buchman — 34,800,000
Seat 7: Joseph Cada — 13,215,000
Seat 8: Antoine Saout — 9,500,000
Seat 9: Jeff Shulman — 19,580,000

And now, basing my logic on these stats and prior results, the November Nine, in my opinion, will fall like this:

9. Antoine Saout
8. James Akenhead
7. Joseph Cada
6. Kevin Schaffel
5. Jeff Shulman
4. Steven Begleiter
3. Phil Ivey
2. Darwin Moon
1. Eric Buchman

I'll be rooting hard for Buchman (LI boy) and Ivey (If a known player wins it all, it will be huge for poker)

-Kenny

Some Poker Talk (What? Really?)

2009-07-12T10:15:00.002-04:00

Yeah, recently I've been playing a certain 4 tournaments every night that I'm home over on Stars... $11 HORSE ($1000 Guaranteed, 6:45pm), $11 NLH ($20,000 Guaranteed, 7pm), the ever-so-popular $3 Rebuy ($40,000 Guaranteed, 8pm) and the $5 2R1A ($4000 Guaranteed, 8:15pm)

I usually cash in one of these tournaments per night, most of the time it's one of the 1 big ones... Last night it was the $3 Rebuy, and I wound up taking 117th place out of 4786 (!) for $78.67. I think I was in for $21 in this tournament, so in for $21+$20+$11+$11 = 63... woot a $15 Profit! SHIPZ!

The next time I play will either be tonight or Tuesday.

And I have drawn up the NYRPS Schedule... I will probably post it later this month; it will be running from September 14 through December 14. And NYRambler's Monday Night HORSE will start in 2010.

-Kenny

The Future of the NYRPS

2009-07-02T20:45:00.002-04:00

I want to run a NYRPS III starting in October... I want feedback from my fellow bloggers and regular players in my series for feedback.

Also, I want to start up a weekly Monday tournament starting in 2010 called Monday Night HORSE... feedback appreciated on that too.

Goooooooooooo LJ!

2009-06-16T17:33:00.002-04:00

Lana 'LJ' 'pvanharibo' Meier is currently among the Final 18 of the $1500 HORSE event at the WSOP, and just took the title of 'best looking person remaining' with the bustout of Vanessa Rousso in 19th. Just like Stoner, we're hoping for a Final Table, and hopefully a win!

Also, congrats to Carol 'CK' Kline for doing well in the $2500 Omaha 8/Stud 8 tournament (the one won by Phil Ivey) and to Andrew 'ShiftyEye7' Perry (from the Forums) for takin 120th in the huge $1500 NLH event (won by Pete The Greek).

I was there for the end of the first and most of the Second Day cheering Andrew on. I'll be posting pics and my Trip Report once I'm done posting it at the forums

-Kenny

Congrats Shawn 'sprstoner' Glines

2009-06-08T08:10:00.001-04:00

Fellow Blogger Shawn 'sprstoner' Glines took 3rd in Event #13 at the WSOP for a cool $202k! Let's hope this isn't the end of his World Series run.

Aside: RYZIES actually took Glines in our WSOP Fantasy Draft. Luckbox. I think I'm still second or third in that because of Raymer's 3rd place in the 40K... my only other cash came from Robert Mizrachi in PLO. Still no signs of Adam 'csimmsux' Geyer, Michael Mizrachi bubbled twice already, and Jordan Morgan and Ivan Demidov are playing almost every event, but aren't running too well.

Stoner Update

2009-06-07T09:04:00.002-04:00

I got some sleep, but woke up early anyway...

Unofficially, according to Pokernews, Stoner has 420K in chips, putting him in 8th place...

Stoner on his blog says he's at 453K, which according to the pokernews chip counts, is still 8th place, but again, pokernews won't update the chip counts until later this morning.

Final 20 coverage starts at 1pm PT (4PM my time)...

Too bad I'm not out there yet to cheer him on, but I know LJ will.

Again, I am leaving for Vegas on WEDNESDAY! HOLY CRAP IT'S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!!!

-Kenny

Goooooooooooo Stoner!

2009-06-07T02:17:00.002-04:00

It's 2:18AM here on the East Coast, but I'm still awake...

Fellow Poker Blogger (and the only person other than me to win the NumbBlowMe Open) Sprstoner is currently the Chip Leader at the WSOP Event #13, $2500 NL Hold 'em. I'm following his progress Here. I'm also following LJ's Cardrunners page.

-Kenny

ToC Predictions

2009-06-02T01:49:00.002-04:00

Here are my predictions for the ToC... I will just be predicting the Bubble Boy, and the 4 prize winners;

Bubble Boy: 1Queens Up1
2K Prize Winners: BuddyDank & Tuscaloosa John
10K Prize Winners: cracknaces & iaatg6296

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IAATG!!!

-Kenny

I'm Back (sorta)

2009-05-30T18:55:00.003-04:00

While I'm still self-excluded from Full Tilt, I did re-deposit $25 on stars...

And I've been playing pretty good. Ran my $25 up to a little less than $57, plus I'm still in a $8.80 tournament that just made the money... and I have a sweet Stars Sharkscope for scheduled tournaments only (105% ROI FTW?)

So I'm back... kinda.

Leaving for Las Vegas on June 10th. Will not be playing any events, but I do wanna meet up with people who might be out there... lemme know what's up.

-Kenny

Giving Up the Game

2009-05-06T21:11:00.003-04:00

I have self-excluded myself from Full Tilt. You will still be able to see me playing the play chip tables, but because of my commitment to family, I am no longer playing for real money.

-Kenny

11th in Riverchasers

2009-04-28T18:07:00.002-04:00

Lately in the BBT, I have been going deep, but not deep enough... this is for the last 4 tournaments.

Last Monday's Riverchasers, I lasted almost 2 hours before I ran KK into AA just shy of the points and money.

Last Tuesday's Skillz (Razz), I lost a key all-in and got crippled, then KO'd on the points bubble.

Last Wednesday's Mookie, I was the first person ITP.

And one key trend was consistent throughout all 3 of those tournaments: super-tight play by me. Usually I get too aggro early on and that ends in my flame-outs. I did make one bad play in the Mookie on Wednesday (shoving A-hi on the river vs. a bet from a nit) but what's a tournament without a bad play by me?

That takes us to Riverchasers last night. I played the first four hands I was dealt, and bled a nice chunk of chips away early. Then I ran two pair into a rivered straight to bring me to 2000. I could've been KO'd on this hand, but my opponent folded... and yes, the Royal Mook scares all:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11908246631: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (88441526), Table 5 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:22:48 ET - 2009/04/27
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (2,595)
Seat 2: TuscaloosaJohn (4,555)
Seat 3: Schaubs (3,505)
Seat 4: NYRambler (1,550)
Seat 5: jamyhawk (2,260)
Seat 7: tgrazz (4,100)
Seat 8: cmitch (2,620)
Seat 9: Troublecat (2,815)
tgrazz posts the small blind of 25
cmitch posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [Th 8h]
Troublecat folds
HighOnPoker folds
TuscaloosaJohn folds
Schaubs folds
NYRambler raises to 150
jamyhawk folds
tgrazz folds
cmitch calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9d 3s 5d]
cmitch checks
NYRambler bets 200
cmitch calls 200
*** TURN *** [9d 3s 5d] [6h]
cmitch bets 400
NYRambler calls 400
*** RIVER *** [9d 3s 5d 6h] [As]
cmitch checks
NYRambler bets 800, and is all in
cmitch folds
Uncalled bet of 800 returned to NYRambler
NYRambler mucks
NYRambler wins the pot (1,525)

I flopped bottom set vs. Jordan a little later, but he didn't call my turn shove... that brought me back to a starting stack.

Took two pots with JJ and a nice bruff with A9 sooted; that took me to this hand, which finally gave me something to work with:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11909265356: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (88441526), Table 5 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:26:44 ET - 2009/04/27
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (6,335)
Seat 2: TuscaloosaJohn (5,825)
Seat 3: Schaubs (7,545)
Seat 4: NYRambler (2,995)
Seat 6: cracknKK (18,124)
Seat 7: tgrazz (4,355)
Seat 8: bayne_s (2,125)
Seat 9: Joanne1111 (5,910)
NYRambler posts the small blind of 80
cracknKK posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [9c 4c]
tgrazz calls 160
bayne_s folds
Joanne1111 folds
HighOnPoker folds
TuscaloosaJohn folds
Schaubs folds
NYRambler calls 80
cracknKK checks
*** FLOP *** [Ac Jc 2d]
NYRambler checks
cracknKK checks
tgrazz bets 160
NYRambler calls 160
cracknKK folds
*** TURN *** [Ac Jc 2d] [7c]
NYRambler checks
tgrazz bets 600
NYRambler raises to 1,680
tgrazz has 15 seconds left to act
tgrazz calls 1,080
*** RIVER *** [Ac Jc 2d 7c] [3h]
NYRambler bets 995, and is all in
tgrazz calls 995
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NYRambler shows [9c 4c] a flush, Ace high
tgrazz mucks (A-3)
NYRambler wins the pot (6,150) with a flush, Ace high

Never doubt the power of CRUBS!

Looking back, I never showed down another hand until my last hand of the tournament; talk about squeaky tight play. In the Money with 11 left, I had A2o in the BB. Tony Eusebio (a player so LAG he makes LJ seem Tight-Passive) raised from the button, which was common. I shoved with my A-2 since I was miles ahead of his range. He called me with A-5, so it was a likely chop...

Until both a 2 AND a 5 came down on the flop... ugh. No third deuce for me, and I'm out in 11th. Good to finally be back ITM in the BBT, and up to 22nd in the Overall Leaderboard. I'm looking to get those 25K FTP points for being in the Top 20. I can play a lot of 1800 FTP token satellites with those!

Tonight is Skillz: Stud Hi-Lo. This was the skillz game back when the BBT started as well, and I was in the points in that tournament, let's hope for something better tonight.

And congrats to Tony Eusebio for winning the Riverchasers last night, not making a deal HU vs a TOC seat winner (lucko) and winning it the right way.

-Kenny

Challenges to my Title - Part 1

2009-04-19T19:38:00.001-04:00

A New Segment from The Biggest Donkey in the Universe: Challenges to my Title.

Here is Part 1.

Atlantic City Trip Report

2009-04-14T18:24:00.002-04:00

Saturday Day: 2/4 Limit @ Showboat, +$60
Saturday Night: 1/2 No Limit @ Showboat, +$75
Sunday Afternoon: $40+$10 Turbo Donkament @ Bally's, -$50
Sunday Afternoon: 4/8 Limit Mini-Blinds* @ Harrah's, +$90

*Before I elaborate, the 4/8 Limit Mini-Blinds is just like a 4/8 game, except that the blinds are $1/$2... the Pre-flop raises are still $4 each... so a raise is to $6, a 3-bet to $10, etc. This was my favorite game I've ever played live.

The 2/4 limit game was your usual donk-fest... There was a long wait list for 1/2 NL. So I sat down with a rack of White Chips and donked it up in 2/4. I left with a Stack and a half of Red and a few whites, so I estimated $60 profit. I don't really remember the hands exactly, but TP was usually good.

After dinner I went back and played some 1/2 NL, and bought in for $200. I lost a big pot early on when I ran top pair into 2 pair, but took a lot of pots without a showdown, including one gutsy semi-bluff with just a diamond draw. I only made 3 donk plays the entire trip at the tables, and two were at this table.

I raised to $7 from MP with Q-T of crubs and got called by the Button and the Blinds. Flop is K-9-2 rainbow. Checks to me, I bet $11, and get called by just the button. Turn is a 10. I check and the button bets $25, leaving her with $6 behind. I thought about it for a few seconds, then said 'I'll raise the rest of your chips'. She called...

Turn: J

I say 'sorry' and flip up my Q-T, she sighs, shows A-A (nice pre-flop raise... oh wait) and leaves. This pot took me to about $450. Only one other guy covered, and he tightened up when he saw my willingness to gamble.

That guy and his $550 stack left an hour later, when I had about $600 in front of me. During this time, another lady bought in for $300 and was playing VERY aggressively. She built up to about $400 in 20 minutes with lots of aggressive plays, never showing a hand down.

Donk Play #2 was the costliest play I've ever made. I raised to $7 from EP with A-T. LP, Villain in SB called and BB called.

Flop: T-8-7 rainbow.

Checks to me and I bet $20. Villain raises to $65. Folds to me... and I didn't really think about it, I just thought she was putting me on air... I immediately said All-In and she pushed her chips (about $320 more) in like Chris Ferguson would... I knew I was destroyed.

Turn: J
River: 2

She turns over 8-8 and takes down a pot worth close to $800.

From there I was back to even for the session... but I won a pretty decent pot with K-3 sooted (top pair delivers), got my stack to $275, then called it a night.

Sunday

My dad called while I was playing table games... which from now on will probably just stick to Pai Gow and Blackjack after I got owned at all Let It Ride and Craps games... and only had 1 good hand in Three Card Poker (3 8s for $360).

I registered, then I looked down and noticed it was a Speed Tournament... LOL This sounds fun. 12-minute levels, 10K Starting Chips and 25/50 levels, so I was thinking it shouldn't be too bad.

I played very tight early on, played only 3 hands the first hour:

Hand 1: Get T-T, raise 3x, flop an overpair, C-Bet and Take it Down.

Hand 2: Immediately after Hand 1, get KQo in MP, Limp Along with 3 EP limpers, 7 handed to the flop of A-8-2. Hand Over.

Hand 3: With about 9500 in chips, get JJ in MP. UTG (Yamaka-Jew who bluffed twice, including one sick hammer throw) raises 3.5x. I smooth-call (which I always do with mid-pairs in this spot), and BB calls too. 3 handed to the flop.

Flop: K-J-T Rainbow.

BB checks and UTG snap-shoves for 10K. I make a small mistake and Snap-Call. Snap was the small mistake, because BB took forever then folded KQo face up! UTG showed 9-9. Faded the 3 outer and doubled up to a shade over 20K. Took that to break.

Hour 2: Mistake #3. The blinds are now huge. I think 400/800, and I have a 20K stack. UTG shoves for 6K. LP calls for less. I have A-3 of hearts in the BB. I decide I need to gamboool to get some chips, and I called. EP: 5-5. LP: K-T.

Flop: J-7-5. Oops. That left me with 15K.

Before I knew it, I had 13K, and it was 6.5 big blinds. I got moved to a new table and did a lot of folding. Finally, A guy who just lost an all-in shoved for 11K from UTG+1. I'm next to act and I look down at AQo. I called, everyone else folded. UTG+1 shows Q-6 of Diamonds. Hooooooooooooooold...

Flop: 9d-8x-5x... you know where this story's going...
Turn: 8d
River: 5d - houiahgoidhogiahbo

I had less than a big blind... Next hand was J-3 so i folded... UTG i had A-9o, so i threw my last 1600 in. A MP player shoves to isolate, and shows the JackAce. No 9 for me and I'm bounced.

4/8 Mini-Blind at Harrah's... this was fun and not as swongy as I thought. The play was MUCH better here than at 4/8, and the rake was the same. I played much tighter, but I made some funky plays here and there.

My favorite hand of the entire trip was this one. I'm on the button with 9-4 of crubs. 4 limpers, so I limp (<3 Button), blinds call. Flop is Jc-Js-6s. Folds to me, I bet to try to take the pot, just the BB calls...

Turn: 8c. He checks, I bet and he snap-calls. He either has a 6 or a spade draw...

River: Qc (obv: CRUBS ALWAYS GET THERE!)

BTW, this was the only flush i remember hitting all trip. He check-calls, I show him my flush and tell the table "The Key to Winning Poker is Simple: Run Good." He mucks his 6-3o.

I was swongy, and at one point was down a nice chunk, then I won a pot with a middle pair and said "Hm I wonder If i can get a rush going"...

Next Hand: T-T, flop an overpair, take it on the turn.
Next Hand: J-J, flop an overpair, get value all the way.

Yep, got a small rush. I wound up winning here too. I thouroughly enjoyed this game, and I played from 5pm until 11pm.

I think I'm ready for Vegas... Maybe we'll get that 5/10 AWESOME game going ;)

Played the Riverchasers last night, and ran into an old nemesis, Bessin. Bessin cost me a FT at HORSE during Skillz a few weeks ago with some weird (see: bad) play, but I got trapped good here: QQ EP, I raise, Bessin and Buddy call, flop is K-8-4, I bet, Bessin Calls, Buddy Folds. Turn: 10. I check, and Bessin insta-bets 500. I usually read this as bruff, so I shove, and Bessin snaps with A-K. Oops.

Tonight is HOSE in the Skillz Game, And I plan on bringing my D- game as usual.

My Nickname of 'Biggest Donkey in the Universe' is gonna catch on. Just Watch.

-BDitU

SHIP IT!!!!!!

2009-04-10T00:49:00.003-04:00

Huge Win for me... considering I had only $1.04 in my Stars account... so decided to play in 3 45-man and 1 90-man Quarter SNGs... and LOOK! I took one down!

Stars Roll now an awesome $3.52.

Isn't this how BuddyDank got started on Full Tilt?

Atlantic City in about 40 hours. :)

-Kenny

Vegas Plans + Other Stuff

2009-04-07T19:45:00.003-04:00

I have been planning a Vegas Trip ever since Nik Santi called me out in January to go out there. Well, I will be going out there in the middle of June during the WSOP. June 10th through the 14th (5 days, 4 nights). I might play the $1500 NL Event on the 11th (I am willing to sell pieces of myself, and I know at least one person has offered to buy some). I will be meeting up with my fellow OT Degens out there, and iaatg6926 is going out there with me... I know CK and cem are going to be out there as well...

So this is looking like an unofficial blogger gathering. So if you ever wanted to know a time to get to Vegas, well just start reading blogs; the plans are becoming more and more clear.

Congrats to Oaklandish for beating me heads up in the NYRPS TOC. I was too tired and shoved with a double gut shot and ran into Top Top.

I will be heading out to Atlantic City this weekend... hit me up if you plan on being there as well... Staying at Harrah's, will spend time at Showboat, Bally's and will probably be making my first trip to Borgata.

Skillz and Mookie tonight... I'm cutting down on my poker playing for now, sticking just to BBT events... Big things happening on my front IRL that has to do with my father in the coming month... but that's for another blogpost.

In Before tl;dr.

-Kenny

Change in the TOC - Dammit Full Tilt Update Your Private Tournaments!

2009-04-02T11:42:00.002-04:00

Unfortunately for the TOC participants, I cannot make a Freeroll tournament where there are multiple token prizes...

So instead of a First and Second battle, it will be a Winner-Take-All TOC with the winner nailing down a $75 token.

The tournament is made. See everyone on Monday!

-NYRambler

Congrats to TonyEusebio and iaatg6296

2009-03-31T12:45:00.002-04:00

Tony Eusebio takes down the $33 NYRPS Main Event with 17 runners for a first place prize of $255. However, it wasn't enough to take iaatg6296 out from the top of the leaderboard... iaatg also landed a 3rd place finish in the Main Event, and finishes on top with over 400 points.

Final Complete Leaderboard:

	Total	Tourneys Played
iaatg6296	408.5	17
Tony Eusebio	255	2
TheSlinger	234.16	11
NumbBono	226.51	15
NYRambler	188	18
ferrisbuellr	183	8
bloodslut	176.75	13
I Love Blowjobs	153	1
Oaklandish	128	7
Blyght	120	6
pvanharibo	115.9	15
PirateLawyer	109.6	5
ChampSampson	105	11
chitwood	103.5	6
twoblackaces	96	13
heffmike	85	7
kazor	72	1
Loretta8	68.04	3
Maniac57	60	3
Domesticllama	52.5	5
DukeMuscle	52.2	2
drunkenmonkey87	52	8
mookie99	51.2	2
laudgal	48	1
ScottMc	38	2
willwonka	35	1
MiamiDon	34.5	3
bayne_s	28.8	4
hoyazo	24	3
jeciimd	24	5
jimdniacc	10.34	6
Breeze81	0	2
buckhuntin	0	1
BuddyDank	0	3
cemfredmd	0	1
Chasm 920	0	7
CheckinMyAA	0	3
chuckfantastic	0	1
corron10	0	2
counterman99	0	1
DaNutzQ3	0	1
DDionysus	0	1
Deuce Wild08	0	1
dueyv9	0	1
Easycure	0	3
Elise Neal	0	1
emetjr	0	2
emptyman	0	2
gtrplyr92	0	1
HighOnPoker	0	1
InstantTragedy	0	1
jjordanesque	0	1
Joanne1111	0	4
KingPrussia	0	3
lightning36	0	3
lilkimmer77	0	6
llama73	0	1
lucko21	0	2
mdford84	0	1
muhctim	0	1
ntatilter	0	1
nzgreen	0	6
Pink Of Floyd	0	1
PinkyStinky	0	10
pokerenthusiast	0	1
Qw1k_Draw	0	1
RUSTY WILSON	0	1
Schaubs	0	1
scottc25	0	3
swizaro	0	1
The WhiskeyPete	0	1
Tsafman	0	1
tttomas	0	1
ult1mo	0	1
usf1986	0	2
Vercellis	0	2
Waitin4thenuts	0	1
worm96762005	0	1
YANS24	0	1
Zeem	0	2
ZKP	0	1
PRbigFish	0	1

The Tournament of Champions will consist of the following players:

iaatg6296
Oaklandish
ferrisbuellr
NYRambler
Maniac57
pvanharibo
chitwood (will register sophie2002 instead though)
TheSlinger
ChampSampson
kazor
NumbBono
heffmike
bloodslut
Blyght
TonyEusebio

Only 15 despite there being 18 tournaments, there were 3 2-time champs (iaatg6296, NYRambler and pvanharibo)

Congrats goes out to my BDR collegues BuddyDank and Joanada for taking down the Brit Blogger Game and PPI/Riverchasers respectively. Maybe Myself and Numb will make it an all-BDR week with the Skillz and Mookie!

The NYRPS Main Event

2009-03-26T22:55:00.002-04:00

Start Pimping it Now... Already Three Donkeys Registered in advance (and I'm not one of them)

$33 Buy-In, 5000 Starting Stacks.

Password is 'epicfail'.

Hopefully it won't be the case as last year when the Winner of the tournament won the whole leaderboard as well.

NYRPS Event #17 Results

2009-03-23T23:33:00.003-04:00

12 players came out to play the NYRPS $26 Knockout event.

In the end, it was Blyght who got a big stack by hitting trips vs Aces and held the big stack throughout.

1st: Blyght: $120
2nd: iaatg6296: $72
3rd: NYRambler (yep): $48

Here are the Updated Standings going into the final event:

iaatg6296	306.5
TheSlinger	234.16
NumbBono	226.51
NYRambler	188
ferrisbuellr	183
bloodslut	176.75
Oaklandish	128
Blyght	120
pvanharibo	115.9
PirateLawyer	109.6

NYRPS Event #17

2009-03-23T17:34:00.001-04:00

The NYRPS II is ending soon; the final two tournaments, the biggest ones of the series, are going down tonight and next week.

Tonight at 10pm ET is Event #17: $26 NLH with $4 KO Bounties. Password is 'epicfail'. 3000 Starting Chips

Next Week is the Main Event: $33 NLH with 5000 Starting Chips.

Also tonight is the 4th week of the Riverchasers tournament in the BBT4. I made 2 of the 3 final tables of that tournament so far... going for 3 of 4 tonight!

Donkavatar FTW

2009-03-22T16:11:00.001-04:00

Julius_Goat finally posted my Donkavatar. You can download it (with instructions on where to put it) at donkavatar.blogspot.com.

Bracketology 101 by NYRambler

2009-03-18T17:57:00.003-04:00

Here are some things I always look to do in the NCAA Bracket Challenge:

1- 2 8s win round 1, 2 9s win round 1.
2- Always pick at least 1 12 seed to beat a 5.
3- Always pick at least 1 3 seed to go to the Final 4.
4- Big East >>> Everyone Else (for the most part)

That being said, here's how I have my brackets going.

Midwest: My 12 over 5 match takes place here: Arizona over Utah. Arizona was the last team in, but they are still a pretty good team in a tough Pac-10. Utah's a Mid-Major and Mid-Majors were weak this year. Later on, I have 6 seeded West Virginia beating Kansas, and in my first of 2 #1 seeds falling in the Sweet 16, Wake Forest over Louisville. Wake was consistent all year, and don't shoot 3s. So they didn't get a 24-6 record in the second toughest conference by accident. Louisville did win the Big East, but they were never dominant and didn't beat Pitt in the Big East Tournament. In the end, I have Michigan State (Tom Izzo always delivers) coming out of the Midwest

East: All Pitt, All the Time. Villanova will have no problems playing in Philly the first two weeks, then they meet up with an improved but still young Duke team in the Sweet 16. I think 'Nova's experience will prevail. VCU over UCLA is my upset in the first round; I picked VCU 2 years ago over Duke and it worked. I'm not as high on Florida St. as some others are... I have Xavier beating them. Pitt comes out though.

South: Here's where I made some moves to win my bracket pools. I have UNC LOSING to Gonzaga. It's a risk, but I think the Zags are REALLY good. Syracuse showed a lot of heart in the Big East tournament, and I have them coming out of the South, fulfilling #3 of my list.

West: Almost everyone has UConn vs Memphis in the Regional Finals here... and I do too. I think Memphis deserved the #1 seed, and they will show up in their match vs UConn with much more incentive. In the first round, I took my largest upset in the tournament: taking the Super-Hot SEC Champs Mississippi State over the Pac-10s Washington.

Final Four: #2 Michigan State, #1 Pittsburgh, #3 Syracuse and #2 Memphis

Finals: Pittsburgh over Memphis 70-63.

Good Luck.

(Mook Tonight)

Bloodslut wins Dime Rebuy + 8th in Riverchasers

2009-03-17T10:49:00.003-04:00

12 donkeys put up 10 cents (plus the 1000% rake) to enter NYRPS Event #16: NLH Dime Rebuy

After 496 Rebuys and 9 Add-Ons (3 people gave up before the rebuy period ended) We had a prize pool of $51.70, making this the smallest tournament in the NYRPS.

After the rebuy period ended, we had a little deepstack play for those with the stacks. We quickly got down to the final 3: jimdniacc, NumbBono and Bloodslut. Bloodslut took NumbBono out Heads Up and took down his first NYRPS title.

Here are the Updated Point Standings:

iaatg6296	234.5
TheSlinger	234.16
NumbBono	226.51
ferrisbuellr	183
bloodslut	176.75
NYRambler	140
Oaklandish	128
pvanharibo	115.9
PirateLawyer	109.6
ChampSampson	105
chitwood	103.5
twoblackaces	96
heffmike	85
kazor	72
Loretta8	68.04
Maniac57	60
Domesticllama	52.5
DukeMuscle	52.2
drunkenmonkey87	52
mookie99	51.2
laudgal	48
ScottMc	38
willwonka	35
MiamiDon	34.5
bayne_s	28.8
hoyazo	24
jeciimd	24
jimdniacc	10.34

In the Riverchasers Tournament, I had a big stack, became a short stack, and was trying to survive both the Points and Money Bubble.

Here's how I survived the Points Bubble:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11182108481: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (83195958), Table 1 - 300/600 Ante 75 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:31:28 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: NewinNov (7,720)
Seat 2: daisy-may wins (8,625)
Seat 3: niktak (11,262)
Seat 4: lucko21 (12,310)
Seat 5: dueyv9 (8,750)
Seat 6: NYRambler (6,194)
Seat 7: cardgrrl (11,055)
Seat 8: sportsrecord (17,815)
Seat 9: lightning36 (12,417)
NewinNov antes 75
daisy-may wins antes 75
niktak antes 75
lucko21 antes 75
dueyv9 antes 75
NYRambler antes 75
cardgrrl antes 75
sportsrecord antes 75
lightning36 antes 75
daisy-may wins posts the small blind of 300
niktak posts the big blind of 600
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [Ad Ks]
lucko21 folds
dueyv9 folds
NYRambler raises to 6,119, and is all in
cardgrrl folds
sportsrecord folds
lightning36 folds
NewinNov has 15 seconds left to act
NewinNov folds
daisy-may wins folds
niktak has 15 seconds left to act
niktak calls 5,519
NYRambler shows [Ad Ks]
niktak shows [Jd Ac]
*** FLOP *** [6h 7c 3c]
*** TURN *** [6h 7c 3c] [Tc]
*** RIVER *** [6h 7c 3c Tc] [4s]
NYRambler shows Ace King high
niktak shows Ace Jack high
NYRambler wins the pot (13,213) with Ace King high
The blinds are now 400/800 with an ante of 100
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 13,213 | Rake 0
Board: [6h 7c 3c Tc 4s]
Seat 1: NewinNov (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: daisy-may wins (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: niktak (big blind) showed [Jd Ac] and lost with Ace Jack high
Seat 4: lucko21 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: dueyv9 folded before the Flop
Seat 6: NYRambler showed [Ad Ks] and won (13,213) with Ace King high
Seat 7: cardgrrl folded before the Flop
Seat 8: sportsrecord folded before the Flop
Seat 9: lightning36 folded before the Flop

Soon after that the Points Bubble burst, and I took out the same guy that doubled me up:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11182128633: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (83195958), Table 1 - 400/800 Ante 100 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:32:56 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: NewinNov (7,545)
Seat 2: daisy-may wins (18,400)
Seat 3: niktak (4,568)
Seat 4: lucko21 (11,335)
Seat 5: dueyv9 (8,575)
Seat 6: NYRambler (13,113)
Seat 7: cardgrrl (2,730)
Seat 8: sportsrecord (17,640)
Seat 9: lightning36 (12,242)
NewinNov antes 100
daisy-may wins antes 100
niktak antes 100
lucko21 antes 100
dueyv9 antes 100
NYRambler antes 100
cardgrrl antes 100
sportsrecord antes 100
lightning36 antes 100
lucko21 posts the small blind of 400
dueyv9 posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [Qs Qh]
NYRambler calls 800
cardgrrl folds
sportsrecord folds
lightning36 folds
NewinNov folds
Schaubs (Observer): girl on girl violence
daisy-may wins has 15 seconds left to act
daisy-may wins folds
niktak raises to 4,468, and is all in
lucko21 folds
dueyv9 folds
NYRambler calls 3,668
niktak shows [6c Qc]
NYRambler shows [Qs Qh]
*** FLOP *** [Jh 5s Js]
*** TURN *** [Jh 5s Js] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 5s Js 5h] [As]
niktak shows two pair, Jacks and Fives
NYRambler shows two pair, Queens and Jacks
NYRambler wins the pot (11,036) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
dueyv9: nice
niktak stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11,036 | Rake 0
Board: [Jh 5s Js 5h As]
Seat 1: NewinNov folded before the Flop
Seat 2: daisy-may wins folded before the Flop
Seat 3: niktak (button) showed [6c Qc] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Fives
Seat 4: lucko21 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: dueyv9 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: NYRambler showed [Qs Qh] and won (11,036) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 7: cardgrrl folded before the Flop
Seat 8: sportsrecord folded before the Flop
Seat 9: lightning36 folded before the Flop

Then came the Money Bubble, and I survived that one too:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11182296352: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (83195958), Table 1 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:45:20 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: NewinNov (13,265)
Seat 4: lucko21 (14,415)
Seat 5: dueyv9 (12,180)
Seat 6: NYRambler (13,531)
Seat 7: wwonka69 (10,071)
Seat 8: sportsrecord (16,640)
Seat 9: lightning36 (26,367)
wwonka69: everyone having fun
NewinNov antes 125
lucko21 antes 125
dueyv9 antes 125
NYRambler antes 125
wwonka69 antes 125
sportsrecord antes 125
lightning36 antes 125
wwonka69 posts the small blind of 500
sportsrecord posts the big blind of 1,000
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6s 6h]
NewinNov has been disconnected
NewinNov has reconnected
lightning36 folds
1Queens Up1 (Observer): yup
NewinNov folds
lucko21 raises to 2,800
dueyv9 folds
NYRambler raises to 13,406, and is all in
wwonka69 folds
sportsrecord folds
lucko21 calls 10,606
NYRambler shows [6s 6h]
lucko21 shows [Ac Qc]
wwonka69: want to trade stacks
*** FLOP *** [Ts Kh 9h]
*** TURN *** [Ts Kh 9h] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Kh 9h 3h] [7s]
NYRambler shows a pair of Sixes
lucko21 shows Ace King high
NYRambler wins the pot (29,187) with a pair of Sixes
wwonka69: gg
NYRambler: whooooooooooo
NYRambler: sry lj
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 29,187 | Rake 0
Board: [Ts Kh 9h 3h 7s]
Seat 1: NewinNov folded before the Flop
Seat 4: lucko21 showed [Ac Qc] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 5: dueyv9 folded before the Flop
Seat 6: NYRambler (button) showed [6s 6h] and won (29,187) with a pair of Sixes
Seat 7: wwonka69 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: sportsrecord (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: lightning36 folded before the Flop

I knew lucko had something, but he could very well have A-4 or 5-5 in that spot as well... But it was most likely a coinflip, and it was a key flip for me to win. Lucko busted the next hand to burst the bubble.

Once we got to the Final Table, I just wanted to win. Even if that means Flipping for 75% of my stack, which is what I did in this hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11182448261: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (83195958), Table 1 - 600/1200 Ante 150 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:56:49 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: 125Will (15,482)
Seat 2: NewinNov (26,605)
Seat 3: TheCloserX5 (44,799)
Seat 4: 1Queens Up1 (33,973)
Seat 5: dueyv9 (12,439)
Seat 6: NYRambler (22,891)
Seat 7: wwonka69 (29,734)
Seat 9: lightning36 (12,077)
125Will antes 150
NewinNov antes 150
TheCloserX5 antes 150
1Queens Up1 antes 150
dueyv9 antes 150
NYRambler antes 150
wwonka69 antes 150
lightning36 antes 150
1Queens Up1: detroit
dueyv9 posts the small blind of 600
NYRambler posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [Ah Jd]
wwonka69 folds
lightning36 folds
125Will has 15 seconds left to act
Schaubs (Observer): lol smokkee
iaatg6296 (Observer): 0-16 2 years in a row
125Will raises to 15,332, and is all in
NewinNov folds
TheCloserX5 folds
1Queens Up1 folds
dueyv9 folds
NYRambler calls 14,132
125Will shows [3s 3c]
NYRambler shows [Ah Jd]
*** FLOP *** [4c 2s 2c]
*** TURN *** [4c 2s 2c] [9s]
1Queens Up1: can we wait till AFTER they draft Stafford? I want kc to get curry
*** RIVER *** [4c 2s 2c 9s] [4d]
125Will shows two pair, Fours and Threes
NYRambler shows two pair, Fours and Twos
125Will wins the pot (32,464) with two pair, Fours and Threes
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 32,464 | Rake 0
Board: [4c 2s 2c 9s 4d]
Seat 1: 125Will showed [3s 3c] and won (32,464) with two pair, Fours and Threes
Seat 2: NewinNov folded before the Flop
Seat 3: TheCloserX5 folded before the Flop
Seat 4: 1Queens Up1 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: dueyv9 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: NYRambler (big blind) showed [Ah Jd] and lost with two pair, Fours and Twos
Seat 7: wwonka69 folded before the Flop
Seat 9: lightning36 folded before the Flop

So I lost that one, a few hands later I found 8-5 sooted and 125will called me down, holding QJ of the same suits. I flopped a straight draw and a flush draw I didn't want to hit, but I missed everything and busted in 8th.

Tonight is the HORSE Skillz Series... I won the last time Skillz was HORSE, but it's BBT season now and we'll have a much larger crowd. Maybe I'll get my revenge on 125will tonight. See ya at the Tables!

-Kenny

7th in Brit + NLH Dime Rebuy Tomorrow @ SPECIAL TIME

2009-03-15T20:08:00.003-04:00

I took 7th in the Brit Blogger Game earlier today. The 4pm Start time sucks, and I left for 20 minutes to go eat dinner, but I still was able to keep a decent stack.

I won a huge hand vs. 2 shorties when my AK beat out AQ and AJ to give me a big chip lead, but it was hard to play with smokkee to my left, as he tormented me, and always seemed to make his move when I was making a move. This was for most of the Money Bubble, and I found myself just below average when the Money Bubble Burst, and in 7th place when the FT started.

I was able to build up a pretty good stack when the aggressive Brit Blogger LexLuther999 raised, and I had AQ, I decided to make an overbet shove. He called with JJ and I lost the raise, so there goes.

Tomorrow is the PPI/Riverchasers... Same ol' Token NLH.

But for the NYRPS, we are having our NLH Dime Rebuy tournament. There is a special time for this tournament; 9pm ET. I moved the time so the pushmonkeys that we are don't accidentally push in the Riverchasers.

Once the rebuy period is over, the real poker starts for the NYRPS, and the Riverchasers starts as well.

Mookie Recap

2009-03-11T23:04:00.002-04:00

err... not so much. I called off all my chips with 7-7.

However, I did manage a 6th place finish in a 397 runner $11 tournament. Earned a shade under $200 for that one.

I might have a recap on that one because there were some interesting hands. And a sick cold deck to take me out.

New Blogroll Entries

2009-03-11T18:21:00.003-04:00

I decided to Update my Blogroll with some veterans as well as the newest blogger on the block.

1- The No Leaf Clover (iaatg6296) - A friend of mine for about 5 years, he got introduced through the blogger world through me. If 'iaatg' is too hard for you to pronounce or type, you can call him 'Foley' since that's what I call him.
2- TwoBlackAces
3- Life's a JOPKE (heffmike)
4- Pattern Recognition (PirateLawyer)
5- BWOP (ck31, Black Widow of Poker) - Love the nickname 'Black Widow', since I am a fan of the Black Widow series of Bowling Balls...

I was talking with Julius Goat over the weekend, discussing my Donkavatar. I submitted Goat the picture, he said it was easy and will probably get done over the weekend. I am obviously taking the Angry Gecko slot with this avatar (which is what I always use)... I'm not going to spoil exactly what it is, but I will give a hint... If you're a NASCAR fan, you should recognize this 'character'.

Tonight is THE MOOKIE. After Pointing in 2 early BBT events, I haven't been able to get off the ground lately. Hopefully things will turn around tonight. Make sure to tune in to BuddyDank Radio.

Damn, this is one of my longest posts in a while. Enjoy it, IMO.

-Kenny

NYRPS Leaderboard

2009-03-10T23:14:00.000-04:00

iaatg6296	234.5
TheSlinger	234.16
NumbBono	211
ferrisbuellr	183
bloodslut	150.9
NYRambler	140
Oaklandish	128
pvanharibo	115.9
PirateLawyer	109.6
ChampSampson	105

There Ya Go, LJ.

Team Lucko scoops; Time Change for Dime Rebuy

2009-03-10T12:31:00.002-04:00

LJ Wins NYRPS Event #15 by taking the chip lead early and pretty much never letting it go.

Lucko wins the PPI/Riverchasers because dooses never looses.

I don't have time to write a full recap, but I will give this important announcement now.

NYRPS Event #16, the NL Hold 'em DIME REBUY start time has been moved to 9PM ET. I did this so we can all be shovemonkeys (like we should be) and not have it interfere with the PPI/Riverchasers tournament. Once the rebuy period ends, the PPI tournament starts, and as does the 'poker' part of the Dime Rebuy.

The NYRPS Tournament of Champions will take place April 6 at 10pm ET.

NYRPS Event #15

2009-03-08T22:15:00.000-04:00

Ready for some Mixed Hold 'em Action?

One Level is Limit, the Next Level is No Limit. Bring both of your Hold 'em Skills to this one!

password is 'epicfail' as usual.

Be Sure to play the PPI/Riverchasers BBT Tournament as well... I'll be going for back to back FT's in that tournament.

Lon from ESPN is Right

2009-03-04T23:04:00.000-05:00

Pocket Jacks Suck. (nh hoy)

/waffles-like blogpost

Skillz Game

2009-03-04T12:10:00.002-05:00

I missed the first half hour of the skillz game, but once I sat down, I played my first hand and hit a wheel. Hm, this might go good.

Fast Forward 2 hours. I have a good stack and we're on the points bubble. I have a pair and an 8 lo facing an aggressive opponent (wolfshead) with 3 spades and 3 to an 8 lo showing. I decide to call down since he might just be aggro-betting either side. He turns up a Straight Flush Wheel obv.

From there I have to nurse a short stack once we get into the points. I raise and take down a pot with a pair of 9s on third street, then get it in with Q-T-4 of clubs. 3-way all in vs. wolfshead who had an 8 lo draw and scurvydog who had a 6 lo draw. Scurvydog made a 7 lo, but I had the high hand lead with a pair going into seventh... and wolfshead makes a 6 hi straight on 7th obv. No Money, but more points as I went out in 17th.

Tonight is The Mookie. Over/Under on # of people is set at 140.

-Kenny

Heffmike Scoops

2009-03-03T08:41:00.003-05:00

17 Players showed up for the 14th Event of the NYRPS: Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo. While this was going on, 82 players entered the BBT4-endorsed PPI/Riverchasers Tournament.

I took 7th in the Riverchasers for a nice cash and some points for their leaderboard. Heffmike wound up winning the tournament after a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG Final Table.

In the NYRPS, NumbBono, Heffmike and ferrisbuellr were the final 3 going for the Title. Only heffmike hadn't won a NYRPS Tournament yet so he was looking for a seat, while the other two were looking to remove a seat from the tournament.

However, Heffmike ran gooot yesterday, and won both the major blogger tournaments of the night!

Here is the Updated Top 10:

iaatg6296	234.5
TheSlinger	234.16
NumbBono	175
ferrisbuellr	159
bloodslut	150.9
NYRambler	140
Oaklandish	128
PirateLawyer	109.6
ChampSampson	105
chitwood	103.5

There are 4 weeks to go in the NYRPS: Mixed Hold 'em, Dime Rebuy NLH, KO NLH and the NLH Main Event. I hope that I draw more as many people thought that multi-tasking 2 different tournaments was too much. (Last Night I was multi-tasking 3, so my play at the NYRPS was squeaky tight) Hopefully with all Hold 'em the next 4 weeks, things will be different.

-Kenny

Multi-Tasking, Anyone?

2009-03-02T17:08:00.002-05:00

Tonight is Event #14 of the NYRPS: Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo. Password is 'epicfail' as usual. It's a $10+1 buy-in with Double Stacks.

Also Tonight is the first PPI/Riverchasers event of the BBT4. Both tournaments start at 10PM ET. This is a $26 Double Stack NL Hold 'em Event with the password 'riverchasers'.

Be Sure to listen to BuddyDank Radio.

-Kenny

6th in 4K HORSE

2009-03-01T02:19:00.003-05:00

Decided at almost the last minute to play the 4K HORSE tonight.

Good Decision, as I made my first 4K HORSE Final Table (so i'm about 40 behind emptyman) and added $220 to my account. Considering I tokened into this tournament (as I usually do), I'm quite proud.

I also started taking Emptyman's color-coding advise, and it helped me come back from down to 1K in chips early after getting brutalized in Omaha in Razz and Especially Stud in the first hour. I was at the top of the leaderboard most of the night.

I'll probably be playing these tournaments a little more, and I also hit up the 1/2 HORSE Table for about $70 today in 2 sessions.

-Kenny

New AIM Address

2009-02-26T20:39:00.002-05:00

I created an AIM address for people with AIM to communicate with me when I'm on BDR or playing poker.

The AIM is 'TheRealNYRambler'.

NYRPS Event #13 Results

2009-02-26T01:42:00.002-05:00

Sorry I'm posting this a little late...

NumbBono wins the smallest tournament so far in the NYRPS II, the Limit Hold 'em. 8 people signed up, paying the top 3.

Here are the Updated Top 10 Standings:

iaatg6296	234.5
TheSlinger	234.16
bloodslut	150.9
NYRambler	140
Oaklandish	128
ferrisbuellr	125
NumbBono	124
PirateLawyer	109.6
ChampSampson	105
chitwood	103.5

Starting Next week, while you play the PPT/Riverchasers tournament featured in the BBT, also buy-in to the NYRPS, which is Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo this week.

NYRPS Event #13: LOL Minibet

2009-02-22T22:50:00.002-05:00

NYRPS Event #13 is $11 Limit Hold 'em. Forget your All-In Button; it's strictly raise, call or fold!

Tournament ID# is 67602371, password is 'epicfail'.

BBT4

2009-02-21T00:36:00.000-05:00

Starting March 1, running through May 31, The Battle of the Blogger Tournaments 4 is on.

Sunday - Wednesday will be jampacked with Bloggers and other players ready to score free WSOP Prizes: 2 Main Event Packages and 7 $1500 packages are to be awarded!

Here are the Schedule of Tournaments:

Sundays: Brit Blogger Game: $5.50 Buy-in, NLH, 4pm ET. Password is 'donkament'.

Mondays: Riverchasers: $26 Buy-in, NLH, 10pm ET. (same time as the NYRPS, which you should play too!) Password is 'riverchasers'.

Tuesdays: Skillz Game: $11 Buy-in, Rotation of Non-NLH games, 9:30pm ET. Password is 'skillz'.

Wednesdays: The Mookie: $11 Buy-in, NLH, 10pm ET. Password is 'vegas1'.

Points Leader by Month (March, April and May) wins a $1500 WSOP Seat. Every Tournament Winner is entered into a TOC freeroll at the end of the series, 1st and 2nd gets a Main Event WSOP Seat, 3rd and 4th gets a $1500 WSOP Seat.

Loretta8 won a Main Event Seat through this series last year.

This Year, It Could Be You! (or even me)

NYRPS Event #12 Results

2009-02-17T17:48:00.002-05:00

Sorry for the lack of pimpage for the event last night: I left my house to go to work at 8:30 AM, and didn't get home until 9:10 PM after work, running to a customer after work, dinner and bowling. I was able to make a header for a blogpost via my iPod Touch, but couldn't put text in.

Oh well. 16 people still signed up for the event, which was Heads Up PLO Shootout, including 4 new players; Bloggers DDionysus (Pokah Dave) and InstantTragedy, along with 2 unknowns, Kazor and Rusty Wilson.

With 16 people for a Heads-Up tournament, there were no byes, and thus no complaints.

My opening match was against PinkyStinky, and we each played VERY tight (lots of limping and checking). He slowly built a 4000 to 2000 lead, which I responded to by turning up the aggression, and thus taking a 4000 to 2000 lead of my own. However, he responded by turning up even more aggression, and took a 3K pot down, and I could never recover.

PinkyStinky joined hoyazo, bloodslut, twoblackaces, heffmike, kazor, Rusty Wilson and Defending NYRPS Champ ChampSampson in the second round.

The winners of the Second Round found the Money, and they were bloodslut, hoyazo, kazor and ChampSampson.

Bloodslut and kazor went to the heads up match which lasted under 20 minutes. kazor took the final hand, the $72 first place prize and a seat at the TOC. bloodslut took his third cash (and first since Event #2) of the series to move into 3rd place on the overall standings.

The Top 10 in Points:

TheSlinger	234.16
iaatg6296	210.5
bloodslut	150.9
NYRambler	140
Oaklandish	128
ferrisbuellr	125
PirateLawyer	109.6
chitwood	103.5
twoblackaces	96
ChampSampson	89

Next Week, for NYRPS Event #13, is Limit Hold 'em. To ensure that you're not bored out of your mind for the first half hour, there is no Double Stack. 1500 Starting Chips.

-Kenny

NYRPS Event #12- PLOrly Heads-Up

2009-02-16T15:26:00.001-05:00

Jeez It's Cold...

2009-02-14T22:56:00.003-05:00

Here's a 1/2 Stud Hi Hand I played in HORSE today...

Full Tilt Poker Game #10636131346: Table Hillside - $1/$2 Ante $0.20 - Limit Stud Hi - 22:53:10 ET - 2009/02/14
Seat 1: NYRambler ($71.80)
Seat 2: Thirsty Frog ($15.25)
Seat 3: xCHAM0Sx ($40.60)
Seat 4: fatimal30 ($8.35)
Seat 5: chatta ($14.10)
Seat 6: BIGBOB416 ($39.45)
Seat 7: drchad ($12.40)
Seat 8: XA_kid ($34.65)
NYRambler antes $0.20
chatta antes $0.20
XA_kid antes $0.20
fatimal30 antes $0.20
drchad antes $0.20
Thirsty Frog antes $0.20
xCHAM0Sx antes $0.20
BIGBOB416 antes $0.20
*** 3RD STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6h 5h] [3s]
Dealt to Thirsty Frog [6s]
Dealt to xCHAM0Sx [Qs]
Dealt to fatimal30 [6c]
Dealt to chatta [8h]
Dealt to BIGBOB416 [7c]
Dealt to drchad [Jc]
Dealt to XA_kid [9s]
NYRambler is low with [3s]
NYRambler brings in for $0.25
Thirsty Frog folds
xCHAM0Sx completes it to $1
fatimal30 folds
chatta folds
BIGBOB416 folds
drchad folds
XA_kid folds

No 4s shown, I'm hoping for a 4 to chase; If I brick out, I fold on 4th.

NYRambler calls $0.75
*** 4TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6h 5h 3s] [7h]
Dealt to xCHAM0Sx [Qs] [Qc]

Well now he might have trips, but I have a gutter and backdoor draws everywhere

xCHAM0Sx bets $2
NYRambler calls $2

*** 5TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6h 5h 3s 7h] [4h]
Dealt to xCHAM0Sx [Qs Qc] [Ks]

Yahtzee. Unless he has KQ (or QQ) in the hole, I'm ahead, and even if he has KQ I have 2 outs to the Straight Flush

xCHAM0Sx bets $2
NYRambler raises to $4
xCHAM0Sx calls $2

*** 6TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6h 5h 3s 7h 4h] [2h]
Dealt to xCHAM0Sx [Qs Qc Ks] [Qd]

Well, I made a Flush, but that didn't really change anything for my hand... But now he has 3 queens showing, and based on how he's played the hand he might have Quads. Alas, he could still have Ax of spades in the hole (which is another hand to raise with on 3rd)

xCHAM0Sx bets $2
NYRambler calls $2

*** 7TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [6h 5h 3s 7h 4h 2h] [3h]

*craps pants*

Pleeeeeeeeeeease have at least a boat...

xCHAM0Sx bets $2
NYRambler raises to $4
xCHAM0Sx raises to $6
NYRambler raises to $8
xCHAM0Sx calls $2

*** SHOW DOWN ***
NYRambler shows [6h 5h 3s 7h 4h 2h 3h] a straight flush, Seven high
xCHAM0Sx mucks [Ah Kh Qs Qc Ks Qd 3d] - a full house, Queens full of Kings
NYRambler wins the pot ($34.60) with a straight flush, Seven high
*** SUMMARY ***

God I run so bad... ;)

One Of These Things Doesn't Belong...

2009-02-13T17:51:00.002-05:00

Here are the 6 comments I got after winning The Mookie...

"CONGRATS!!"
"nice!"
"'grats!"
"How does a loser like you win. Jesus. what is the world coming to."
"Well Done!"
"Nice job, Rambler."

Hint: One of them was Waffles.

Also, just as I'm writing this post, I play this following hand at the 1/2 HORSE game...

Full Tilt Poker Game #10611384143: Table Spot (6 max) - $1/$2 Ante $0.20 - Limit Stud H/L - 17:52:50 ET - 2009/02/13
Seat 1: ShyannBelle ($21.25)
Seat 2: pplatypus ($19.55)
Seat 3: OMGuGotRivered ($19.55)
Seat 4: carwich123 ($17.90)
Seat 6: NYRambler ($63.45)
pplatypus antes $0.20
ShyannBelle antes $0.20
OMGuGotRivered antes $0.20
NYRambler antes $0.20
carwich123 antes $0.20
*** 3RD STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [5s Ts] [3s]
Dealt to ShyannBelle [Kd]
Dealt to pplatypus [Qc]
Dealt to OMGuGotRivered [Ah]
Dealt to carwich123 [Kc]
NYRambler is low with [3s]
NYRambler brings in for $0.25
ShyannBelle folds
pplatypus folds
OMGuGotRivered folds
carwich123 completes it to $1
NYRambler calls $0.75
*** 4TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [5s Ts 3s] [3d]
Dealt to carwich123 [Kc] [4c]
NYRambler checks
carwich123 bets $1
NYRambler calls $1
*** 5TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [5s Ts 3s 3d] [4s]
Dealt to carwich123 [Kc 4c] [Qs]
NYRambler checks
carwich123 checks
*** 6TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [5s Ts 3s 3d 4s] [6c]
Dealt to carwich123 [Kc 4c Qs] [3h]
NYRambler bets $2
carwich123 calls $2
*** 7TH STREET ***
Dealt to NYRambler [5s Ts 3s 3d 4s 6c] [Ad]
NYRambler bets $2
carwich123 calls $2
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NYRambler shows [Ad Ts 3s 3d 4s 6c 5s] a pair of Threes, for high and 6,5,4,3,A, for low
carwich123 mucks
NYRambler wins the high pot ($6.25) with a pair of Threes
NYRambler wins the low pot ($6.25) with 6,5,4,3,A
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $13 | Rake $0.50
Seat 1: ShyannBelle folded on 3rd St.
Seat 2: pplatypus folded on 3rd St.
Seat 3: OMGuGotRivered folded on 3rd St.
Seat 4: carwich123 mucked [Ac 8s Kc 4c Qs 3h 2h] - HI: Ace King high; LO: 8,4,3,2,A
Seat 6: NYRambler showed [Ad Ts 3s 3d 4s 6c 5s] and won ($12.50) with HI: a pair of Threes; LO: 6,5,4,3,A

LOL

Mookie #2!

2009-02-12T01:36:00.003-05:00

Wheeeee!

A very fun final table, and an fun heads-up match with Blinders who played very aggressive. The Final Hand, he did his usual button raise, I decided to put him in with KQ, he had AJ. A 40% chance to win my second Mookie and the King on the Turn gave me the lead, and two pairing with a Queen on the river ships it to me.

Mookie will have a full Final Table recap on his site tomorrow.

-Kenny

The Champ is Here!

2009-02-10T21:00:00.001-05:00

ChampSampson takes down the 11th Event of the NYRPS II.

Here are the Updated Standings:

TheSlinger 234.16
iaatg6296 210.5
NYRambler 140
Oaklandish 128
ferrisbuellr 125
bloodslut 110.9
PirateLawyer 109.6
chitwood 103.5
twoblackaces 96
NumbBono 84
Loretta8 68.04
ChampSampson 65
Maniac57 60
pvanharibo 55.9
Domesticllama 52.5
DukeMuscle 52.2
drunkenmonkey87 52
mookie99 51.2
laudgal 48
ScottMc 38
willwonka 35
MiamiDon 34.5
bayne_s 28.8
jeciimd 24

NYRPS Event #11

2009-02-09T08:55:00.002-05:00

Tonight is the 11th event in the NYRPS: Good ol' No Limit Hold 'em, but with 6-handed tables.

Password is 'epicfail' as always, and the Tournament ID# is 67602111.

Also, I have added 2 more special tournaments to the series: they are both satellites to the 2 big events in March.

On March 23 and March 30 at 7:30pm ET, there are satellites to the NYRPS Event that night. (For the March 23 tournament, I'm awarding a Token... and you can take the 33 T$ instead in the March 30 tournament).

Both tournaments are Turbo, Regular Stacked, $11 tournaments. NYRPS Points are not awarded for these tournaments. And I will not be playing in these tournaments since I set them up during my Bowling League (yes I set these up knowing I won't be playing them)

-Kenny

Slingin' It

2009-02-03T00:09:00.001-05:00

Meh I'm Tired.

NYRPS Event #10

2009-02-02T12:18:00.000-05:00

Tonight is the $5 cubed NLH event in the NYRPS.

Tournament ID# is 67719518, password is 'epicfail'.

NumbBlowMe Open

2009-01-29T17:43:00.004-05:00

Tonight is the Second Ever NumbBlowMe Open...

Unlike the first one, this one is TURBO (so it won't take 7 hours to finish).

All the info is in the banner above.

[ ] NYRPS is Rigged; [x] I Run Good

2009-01-27T00:54:00.004-05:00

A smallish turnout of 13 for the HORSE Event of the NYRPS.

In typical HORSE fashion, the Final Table was strenuous. It took forever but we finally got down to the final 3 of NumbBono, drunkenmonkey87 and Me.

drunkenmonkey was sitting out and a very short stack but was able to squeeze into the bubble when I sucked out on chitwood (K4 > AK) who was also a short stack.

Finally, me and Numb were heads up (just like NYRPS Event #4, the PL Hold 'em) and on air Numb told me I had better finish him off in Hold 'em (my strength) before it got to the other games (his strengths).

So I did, the final hand being A-7 hitting trips vs. his King High.

Results:

1st: NYRambler ($65)
2nd: NumbBono ($39)
3rd: drunkenmonkey87 ($26, a long cry from the $11K he won Sunday!)

Here are the updated standings:

iaatg6296 210.5
TheSlinger 146.66
NYRambler 140
Oaklandish 128
ferrisbuellr 125
bloodslut 110.9
PirateLawyer 109.6
chitwood 103.5
NumbBono 84
Loretta8 68.04
Maniac57 60
twoblackaces 57
pvanharibo 55.9
DukeMuscle 52.2
mookie99 51.2
laudgal 48
ScottMc 38
MiamiDon 34.5
bayne_s 28.8
drunkenmonkey87 26
jeciimd 24

I jump to third, but still behind TheSlinger in my prop bet with the CP Guys. iaatg maintains his lead.

I also take another seat away from the TOC with my second win.

Schedule for the rest of the week:
Tomorrow is Skillz (Limit Hold 'em)
Wednesday is Mookie (obv)
Thursday is the NumbBlowMe Open II (Dime Rebuy FTW)

And next week for the NYRPS will be Groundhog Day; and it will be $5 cubed (1 rebuy and 1 add-on).

-Kenny

NYRPS Event #9: Ride The HORSE!

2009-01-26T09:11:00.001-05:00

Tonight is Event #9 of the NYRPS: $11 Double Stack HORSE.

Password is 'epicfail', Tournament ID# is 67601751.

Ship the Skillz!

2009-01-21T00:34:00.002-05:00

For most of the first hour of the tournament I was around the starting stack. The second hour I dropped a few then took a bunch of chips from Champ in Razz, then started my bounty hunter mission as the blinds took off. At the second break I had a slight chip lead, but I went nuts in the Stud part of the third hour, then went on a bounty mission at the final table during Hold 'em and Omaha. I wound up with 9 Bounties in the end, after a grueling 4 handed session at the final table, I finally got heads up with nzgreen, and in the second razz hand, we got it all in on sixth... I had 97, he had 98, and he paired on the river, and I got the $80 first prize shipped!

I hope to keep the Blogger run going tomorrow in The Mookie. C Y'all there!

-Kenny

It's About The Game... Again.

2009-01-20T19:35:00.002-05:00

16 people ponied up the money for the 8th event in the NYRPS. This week it was Pot Limit HA (Hold 'em and Omaha Hi Mix). I finished right in the middle, going out in 8th after QQK3 one suit fell to KKxx (forgot other cards but there was a K hi flush draw).

The final three were newcomer laudgal, and regulars iaatg6296 and TheSlinger.

The Final Results Were:

1st: iaatg6296: $80
2nd: laudgal: $48
3rd: TheSlinger: $32

iaatg finally adds on to his Event #1 win and takes a big lead in the standings and takes a seat away in the TOC.

Here are the updated standings:

iaatg6296	210.5
TheSlinger	146.66
Oaklandish	128
ferrisbuellr	125
bloodslut	110.9
PirateLawyer	109.6
chitwood	103.5
NYRambler	75
Loretta8	68.04
Maniac57	60
twoblackaces	57
pvanharibo	55.9
DukeMuscle	52.2
mookie99	51.2
laudgal	48
NumbBono	45
ScottMc	38
MiamiDon	34.5
bayne_s	28.8
jeciimd	24

Next Week, is $11 HORSE. I expect the usual HORSE maniacs (Numb and emptyman, I'm talking to you) to show up, as well as a certain other Maniac...

-Kenny

PS: If AlCantHang needs a tournament to be hosted on Mondays for the BBT, I'm willing to accomodate with PL HA tournaments for the BBT. They would feature the same structure as yesterday's tournament. Please mention this to him if he needs ideas.

NYRPS Event #8

2009-01-19T09:08:00.002-05:00

Tonight we will have our eighth NYRPS Event of the Series: Pot Limit HA (Hold 'em and Omaha Hi Mix Game)

Last Year, Loretta8 went on an epic run playing almost every single hand, and winning the tournament using the unique style. This year, there is now a Double Stack involved, so it may not be as easy as it was last year, but we shall see.

Buy-in is $11, Password is 'epicfail', the Tournament ID# is 67601655.

Be There!

-Kenny

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhchit!

2009-01-13T22:25:00.002-05:00

23 peeps showed up for a little heads up action.

Here is how the rounds went:

First Round Matchups:

Byes:
TheSlinger
chitwood
pvanharibo
ferrisbuellr
chasm920
numbbono
CheckinMyAA
Loretta8
chuckfantastic

Matchups:
jimdniacc vs. NYRambler
HighOnPoker vs. TonyEusebio
PinkyStinky vs. llama73
Oaklandish vs. twoblackaces
lucko21 vs. MiamiDon
Domesticllama vs. YANS24
bloodslut vs. ChampSampson

Second Round:

bloodslut vs. PinkyStinky
chitwood vs. NumbBono
Loretta8 vs. ferrisbuellr
Chasm 920 vs. pvanharibo
TonyEusebio vs. CheckinMyAA
YANS24 vs. TheSlinger
MiamiDon vs. twoblackaces
chuckfantasic vs. jimdniacc

Third Round:

Loretta8 vs. Tony Eusebio
Chasm 920 vs. TheSlinger
bloodslut vs. chitwood
chuckfantastic vs. MiamiDon

The Final Four made the Money:

Final Four:

Loretta8 vs. TheSlinger
MiamiDon vs. chitwood

Finals: chitwood vs. TheSlinger

and chitwood wins the final heads up match, the $103.50 first prize and the seat at the NYRPS TOC. TheSlinger's third cash is good to move him into the lead at the CP Prop Bet and 4th place overall.

Cashed for $34.50: Loretta8, MiamiDon

The Updated Point Standings:

iaatg6296 130.5
Oaklandish 128
ferrisbuellr 125
TheSlinger 114.66
bloodslut 110.9
PirateLawyer 109.6
chitwood 103.5
NYRambler 75
Loretta8 68.04
Maniac57 60
twoblackaces 57
pvanharibo 55.9
DukeMuscle 52.2
mookie99 51.2
NumbBono 45
ScottMc 38
MiamiDon 34.5
bayne_s 28.8
jeciimd 24

Next Week is Pot Limit HA. Same Buy-in, Same Password, Same Time.

-Kenny

I Cashed? + NYRPS Event #7

2009-01-12T11:27:00.002-05:00

Yes, It's been a while, but I decided to play the $26 HORSE tournament last night. I played games with my family for the early part of the evening and had a Token to burn, so I decided to play the emptyman Special. On Friday I played the NumbBono Special, and Bubbled. It looked like I was gonna bubble again, but I chopped 3 all-in pots in a row in Omaha Hi-Lo (taking the hi each time) to withstand the bubble, I then was able to take some chips when I was dealt good hands in Razz, and had a decent shot to double up in Stud when this hand happened.

All folded to me after the bring-in, I completed with (22)3 2 diamonds. Next to act called with a 4 up. Bring-in Folded. Fourth gave me an offsuit 10, villain a 5. We got all our chips in and he had hit his 5 with (A5)45, I had (22)3T. Going to Seventh, He still only had the 5s and no draws, I had a flush draw. I hit 2 pair with a 6, but he hit 2 pair with a 7 and sent me home in 20th, for a cash of $44.

FTR, emptyman did finish 3rd in that event that he owns so hard. Good Job!

Tonight is Event #7 in the NYRPS, and it's Heads-Up No Limit Hold 'em. $11 buy-in, 32 player max, password is 'epicfail'. Find it at Tournament #67601559.

As of 11:30AM, 3 people are in, and the interest in this tournament is high, so get in before we get to 32!

-Kenny

Goals for 2009

2009-01-07T18:10:00.002-05:00

This will be short and sweet, and I'll be making fun of myself come 2010... but whatev.

1. Win a 1000+ player MTT
2. Go on a Date (it's been 14 months... I need to get out more)
3. Win 2 Bloggerments (this includes my own of course)
4. Win a BBT4 Bloggerment (Loretta's run in the TOC inspired me to do this if there was a BBT4, and it looks like there will be)
5. Meet at least one blogger IRL. (Odds are more likely to be a New Yorker, but I may attend the Vegas Gathering, so we shall see)
6. Cash in a Live Tournament (This means playing in a Live Tournament, which when I go to AC, I'm not really inspired to do since I suck at 'em (only cashed once) and that I crush the 2/4 Limit games (so much so that i go above the 10% rake)) <~~~ wow that's a lot of parenthesis on this one
7. Win 2 Prop Bets (any prop bet... I was good at last longers with the CP guys last year)
8. Have 3K saved up in my bank account at any time (I'm really pushing myself for this one)

See this post in 2010.

LOL Mookaments

2009-01-06T17:55:00.002-05:00

Here are my Stats from the year 2008 of The Mookie... my first year in playing (starting around the middle of BBT3, which would be March/April)

NYRambler

$399.80

$8.80

39.8

2.42%

24th place on the Leaderboard...
2 dime rebuys shy of $400 in earnings...
33 Tournaments played...
Profit of $8.80 (woooot)
Avg. Finish of 40th (ugh)
5 Cashes and Final Tables
1 Win
1 Third
ROI: 2.42% (wooooot)

Congrats to LJ for winning the leaderboard... but 2009 may be the year of the Rambler (I always say that around the new year)

One other Shout-Out for the end of year Mook Results... to DrewFours, for playing in the most Mooks without cashing... Yikes.

The Curse is Broken

2009-01-06T10:47:00.002-05:00

The Pot Limit Omaha Dime Rebuy Tournament of the NYRPS brought 20 people. Those 20 people rebought a total of 1078 times! Each of them added on and with the 20 dimes already in the prize pool for the buy-in, that brought the total prize pool to $111.80. The top 3 would get paid money and points...

1. pvanharibo - $55.90
2. Loretta8 - $33.54
3. TheSlinger - $22.36

Congrats to LJ for winning her first NYRPS title in many many tries. Loretta scores his 2nd cash in only his 6th NYRPS tournament (counting NYRPS I), and Tournament regular TheSlinger cashes for the second time in the NYRPS II.

Here are the updated standings:

iaatg6296 130.5
Oaklandish 128
ferrisbuellr 125
bloodslut 110.9
PirateLawyer 109.6
NYRambler 75
Maniac57 60
TheSlinger 57.16
twoblackaces 57
pvanharibo 55.9
DukeMuscle 52.2
mookie99 51.2
NumbBono 45
ScottMc 38
Loretta8 33.54
bayne_s 28.8
jeciimd 24

Next Week is Event #7: Heads Up NLH. The first NLH tournament since Event #1. There is a Cap of 32 people, let's try to fill this baby up!

-Kenny

PLO Dime Rebuy Madness!!!

2009-01-04T21:29:00.003-05:00

The Title pretty much sums up NYRPS Event #6...

Unlimited Rebuys!
10 CENTS EACH!
Pot Limit Omaha!
TURBO! (so it won't take 6 hours like the NumbBlowMe)

T# 67601366
PW= epicfail

Riot Act

2008-12-30T00:27:00.002-05:00

Well he may not have jumped to the top of the leaderboard... But Waffles did in fact win Event #5 of the NYRPS, the HOSE event. Fitting that a Hoser won the HOSE event... but whatever...

12 people signed up in this quiet holiday week, but that number is sure to jump next week when the Pot Limit Omaha Dime Rebuy!

PirateLawyer took his second runner-up finish, and Dr. J takes 3rd place.

Though I finished in 6th, I didn't leave empty-handed as I basically got my buy-in back thanks to a side bet me and PL offered to Waffles, where I offered him 5-1 odds against PirateLawyer Bubbling (while we were 4 handed and 3 getting paid)... he took it and PL took the action as well, and iaatg6296 was our bubble, so i say ship it plzkthx.

Here are the updated overall standings:

iaatg6296	130.5
Oaklandish	128
ferrisbuellr	125
bloodslut	110.9
PirateLawyer	109.6
NYRambler	75
Maniac57	60
twoblackaces	57
DukeMuscle	52.2
mookie99	51.2
NumbBono	45
ScottMc	38
TheSlinger	34.8
bayne_s	28.8
jeciimd	24

And the 5 donkeys who are locked into the TOC are...

iaatg6296
Oaklandish
ferrisbuellr
NYRambler
Maniac57

Again, next week is the PLO Dime Rebuy... start pimping your blogs now for a big turnout just like we had in the NumbBlowMe!

-Kenny

100th Post: NYRPS Event #4

2008-12-28T18:15:00.003-05:00

In honor of this, my 100th blog post, I give you...

BOOBIES!!

OK enough with the celebration crap; It's tournament pimping time!

Don't Be a (HOSE)r!!

Come play the NYRPS HOSE event: A Fixed Mix game of Hold 'em, Omaha hi-lo, Stud Hi and Stud Hi-lo.

I will be defending the NYRPS title I won last week in the PLH event.

We will be on-air at BuddyDankRadio as well.

Be sure to check it out!

Full Tilt, Tournament #67601047, password = epicfail

-Kenny

The Host With The Most!

2008-12-23T00:45:00.004-05:00

That's Right. I Pwned the Donkeys tonight! 15 guys decided to sacrifice the time of the Christmas Season to play the Pot Limit Hold 'em version of the NYRPS.

I came into the Final Table as the Chip Leader...

The Chip Lead went from myself to bloodslut to Numb and basically around the three of us through most of the tournament. Bloodslut wound up bubbling in fourth place. The final 3, thus making the points and the money, were NumbBono, Myself, and last week's winner, ferrisbullr. Ferris went out in 3rd leaving me and my BDR co-host, NumbBono, fighting for the title. 9-3 of spades gave me a Flush and a double up against Numb's Kings and Fours... then the Final Hand...

And I say SHIP ITTT. Great Game though, Numb. You'll be back at the Final Table soon enough, with HORSE coming up soon.

Here are the updated standings....

iaatg6296	130.5
Oaklandish	128
ferrisbuellr	125
bloodslut	110.9
NYRambler	75
PirateLawyer	73.6
twoblackaces	57
DukeMuscle	52.2
mookie99	51.2
NumbBono	45
ScottMc	38
TheSlinger	34.8
bayne_s	28.8

I also locked up my seat at the TOC with iaatg, Oaklandish and Ferris.

Next Week, if you're not celebrating any holidays, is HOSE (That's HORSE without the Razz!).

And in TWO WEEKS... THE OMAHA DIME REBUY!!!

-Kenny

NYRPS Event #4

2008-12-21T21:25:00.002-05:00

The Pot (Limit) Run Continues on December 22... NYRPS Event #4 is Pot Limit Hold 'em on Full Tilt!

The Password is 'epicfail' (just like the Jets)

I will be broadcasting from www.buddydankradio.com as usual.

Speaking of BuddyDank... He went VERY deep in the Blogger Freeroll Finals, taking home 12th Place... Still good enough for 320T$! (or a Ticket to a $320 tournament... dunno which one exactly) Great Run, Buddy!

-Kenny

It Was His Day Off...

2008-12-16T02:14:00.003-05:00

19 Donkeys ponied up the $11 for the Full Ring Pot Limit Omaha tournament tonight, in Event #3 of the NYRPS. Waffles was the Gigli for the evening, so when that was taken care of, the rest of the poker could commence.

The Final Table saw familiar faces and a few oldie but goodies. The Three luckboxes to sneak into the Money and the Points were ferrisbuellr, twoblackaces and ScottMc.

NOTE: While This was Going On, twoblackaces was busy TAKING DOWN the 21K Guarantee for over $5500!!! WTG TBA!

TBA 'settled' for Second Place tonight, and the Winner was CardPlayer Moderator ferrisbuellr. He takes home $95, the seat in the TOC and the fourth spot on the Overall Standings, which is as follows...

iaatg6296	130.5
Oaklandish	128
bloodslut	110.9
ferrisbuellr	95
PirateLawyer	73.6
twoblackaces	57
DukeMuscle	52.2
mookie99	51.2
ScottMc	38
TheSlinger	34.8
bayne_s	28.8

Next Week is Pot Limit Hold 'em. If Waffles wants any shot at jumping onto this leaderboard, he'll have to draw around 40+ people and win the whole dang tournament. We Shall See.

Tonight's low turnout was probably due to most of the Bloggers leaving Vegas today. BuddyDank and Joanada both landed tonight, but too late to make it to the tournament. They should be all ready to go for tomorrow and Wednesday, and hopefully for Event #4 of the NYRPS next week.

If you want to start pimping it now, Event #6 in the NYRPS is the Dime Omaha Rebuy!!!

-Kenny

NYRPS Event #3

2008-12-15T10:12:00.001-05:00

Tonight is the Third Event in the Second ever NYRambler Poker Series.

Last Week was 6-handed PLO.

This Week it's 9-handed.

Not on Purpose, but It sure tilted Waffles when he found out there's no NLH in his prop bet.

Password is epicfail as usual.

Tournament Number is 67600860

ZOMG Super Turbo Private Tourneys

2008-12-12T23:09:00.002-05:00

Saw this on Sprstoner's NSFW Blog: Set-up on Full Tilt Poker are 3 special Super Turbo MTTs: Two of which are $11 tournaments next Tuesday and the other a $2 rebuy on Thursday. All have 300 starting chips (yes... THREE HUNDRED) and 3 minute levels, just like those addicting SNGs that are run around the clock (and not like the ones run as satellites to a big event that I made a post about last month; those are ONE Hundred chips)

The password for all three tournaments is 'super turbo'. I will most likely be checking these out.

Don't Forget: NYRPS Event #3 is Monday, PLO 9-handed.

And Buddy and Joanada hit it big in Vegas; Read about it in Buddy's Blog.

-Kenny

Ish in Oakland

2008-12-09T01:09:00.004-05:00

The Short-Handed Pot Limit Omaha Event at the NYRPS was another successful one, with 32 donkeys showing up to take their shot at the 5 spots that get paid and the points.

After 26 donkeys gave their chips away (including myself to DukeMuscle), we had our Final Table of Six: chitwood, bayne, oaklandish, PirateLawyer, Mookie and NYRPS Event #1 Runner-Up, bloodslut.

Mook and bloodslut have made Both Final Tables so far.

chitwood missed out on the money by bubbling in sixth, and after we lost bloodslut and Mook, we were down to Heads-Up for the Title and Monies between Oaklandish and PirateLawyer.

After a back and forth battle, Oaklandish took PirateLawyer out on the Final Hand to claim his first NYRPS Title, and his seat in the TOC.

Here are the Overall Standings after the First Two Events:

iaatg6296 130.5
Oaklandish 128
bloodslut 110.9
PirateLawyer 73.6
DukeMuscle 52.2
mookie99 51.2
TheSlinger 34.8
bayne_s 28.8

Next Week we have more Pot Limit Omaha; this time of the 9-handed variety. Waffles needs wins to climb to the top of the leaderboard to win his prop bet with InstantTragedy. Will He Do It? (probably not)

-Kenny

NYRPS Event #2

2008-12-08T11:15:00.002-05:00

PLOrly?

That is the Name of the Game Tonight, the First of Back-to-Back PLO Games; this one is of the Short-Handed variety. 6 Players at a Table usually means more and faster action, and you can catch all the action at www.buddydankradio.com as usual.

Waffles has thrown down the Gauntlet and plans to be at the top of the Leaderboard after Event #5. We Shall See.

Will iaatg6296 make it Back to Back NYRPS titles?

Tournament # is 67717866, Password is 'epicfail'

See Y'all at 10ET, 9BDT!

-Kenny

The Waffles Factor

2008-12-05T23:21:00.002-05:00

Waffles has thrown down the gauntlet. He says he will be atop the leaderboard in all the major Blogger Tournaments by January 1...

It is summed up here: http://tiltwaffles.blogspot.com/

He calls out the Bodog, Mookie, Skillz, and my games, and that all the base will belong to him.

ORLY?

Instant Tragedy has already propbetted on this, with incentives if IT is atop the leaderboard instead of Waffles.

This might bring even more intrigue to my game than I first thought...

:popcorn:

Freerollaments

2008-12-03T17:52:00.000-05:00

The Title basically says it all...

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 759062

It's All About The... NYRPS

2008-12-02T01:08:00.003-05:00

Well Event #1 of the NYRPS II was a very successful one. 29 Donkeys ponied up the $11 necessary to play. I went out in 26th when I decided that KK was good preflop... and it wasn't vs. the AA of bloodslut. bloodslut went on to bulldoze the field leading up to the final table, and came to the final table with a large chip lead...

When we got to heads up, it was between the Chip Leader from the Final Table start and the Dank Position from the Final Table start... bloodslut vs. iaatg6296. After an early double up, the two went back and forth until A-Q failed bloodslut twice in a row vs. A-8 and K-T, the second time ending the tournament in the favor of iaatg6296.

Congrats to iaatg6296 for earning his seat at the NYRPS TOC and taking the early lead in the Leaderboard Standings.

Next Week is Pot Limit Omaha Hi - Shorthanded.

See Y'all There!

-Kenny

Tonight... It Begins.

2008-12-01T12:43:00.003-05:00

Event #1 is TONIGHT! $11 No Limit Hold 'em with 3K Starting Stacks. Tournament ID # is 67600543. Or you can just search my Screen Name. Password, as will be for all 18 events, is 'epicfail'. I will be HOSTING BuddyDankRadio Live tonight, I hope to have the other co-hosts (Joanada and Numb, possibly Buddy) on as well.

See Ya @ The Tables!

-Kenny

Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T11:12:00.004-05:00

The Day for an excuse to eat like a pig and eat a pig...

Started off pretty good for me.

When I woke up, the TV was turned on to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Thx Mom and Sis). Soon after that, I saw this float of a bunch of kiddie preschool garbage. I was like WTF is this doing on National TV?

Then all of a sudden...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI

YES! Rick Astley saved the day and Rickrolled the Thanksgiving Day Parade!

I'll post the actual link when it goes on YouTube tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

-Kenny

New Banner

2008-11-22T15:08:00.003-05:00

Here is another Banner/Pimper that was very generously created by EasyCure for the Upcoming NYRambler Poker Series.

Last Night BuddyDank graciously introduced me to the control panel for BuddyDankRadio for me to use on Mondays. NumbBono will most likely be on air as well for the entire series, Buddy and Joanada will try to make it as often as they can... as long as they put down Mario Kart for ~3 hours.

NYRambler Poker Series Poster

2008-11-20T18:54:00.004-05:00

NumbBono sent me an E-Mail asking for a NYRPS Poster for the bloggers to pimp with.

After I turned down this suggestion from oaklandish over at Cardplayer...

I came up with this one...

Pimp Away!

-Kenny

NYRPS II Freebies

2008-11-20T13:23:00.000-05:00

Here is the giveaways I will have during the NYRPS this time around:

$50 bonus to the winner of the Leaderboard

(I also urge you guys to make prop bets when it comes to the leaderboard... the system will stay the same because the tournaments itself changed to prevent the mistake that happened with the leaderboard last year)

Token Freeroll for the TOC (First gets $75, Second $26).

So I'm forking up $151 this time around.

We should have BuddyDankRadio coverage of all the events.

Event #1 is $11 No Limit Hold 'em, and it is December 1 at 22:00 ET.

-Kenny

LOL Bankroll Management

2008-11-12T21:44:00.003-05:00

I'm Sorry to all the Bankroll Management Brainiacs out there...

I love the Super Turbo 100 chippers too much!

Just the last part of the graph is all you really need to look at... from 400 to now. I am a sicko obv, earning all of that only in the Super Turbo Sats to the FTOPS events.

I haven't played a single event yet, though if I am home, I will definitely play the $129 tournament.

Tonight is The Mookie without BuddyDankRadio, and myself and a few other bloggers are also playing the Bad Beat on Kidney Failure Charity Event. I'm currently one of the big stacks closing in on the First Break. Mattazuma and yestbay1 (runner-up to me in the NumbBlowMe) are at my table as well.

Hopefully there will be another brag post tonight.

-Kenny

Double Cash the Daily Doubles Sunday; New Bowling High Series Monday

2008-11-10T21:52:00.001-05:00

I hit the Double Cash in the Daily Double tournaments for the second time, for about $38 to go with the $40 I got in DDB and the $15 in DDA. About $75 in profits. Not too shabby.

I shot my new personal best Bowling series on Monday, firing games of 229, 235 and 266 (8 in a row to start) for a total of 730. Also won some nice scratch from the Side Bets at the Alleys tonight.

Ship It.

-Kenny